Comment by tempestn
3 years ago
This kind of thing is why I love Hacker News. Someone runs into a strange technical situation, and someone else happens to share their own obscure, related anecdote, which just happens to precisely solve the mystery. Really cool to see it benefit HN itself this time.
It's also an example of the dharma of /newest – the rising and falling away of stories that get no attention:
HPE releases urgent fix to stop enterprise SSDs conking out at 40K hours - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32035934, but that was submitted today)
Easy to imagine why this didn’t capture peoples’ attention in late March 2020…
Yes, an enterprisey firmware update - all very boring until BLAM!
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Was HN an indirect casualty of Covid?
Interesting how something that is so specifically and unexpectedly devastating, yet known for such a long time without any serious public awareness from companies involved, is referred to as a "bug".
It makes you lose data and need to purchase new hardware, where I come from, that's usually referred to as "planned" or "convenient" obsolescence.
The difference between planned and convenient seems to be intent. And in this context that difference very much matters. I wouldn’t conflate the two.
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Popularity is a very poor relevance / truth heuristic.
I wanted to upvote this comment but that just feels wrong.
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